URL: dharmafly.com/hpwebos-hackday/demo/ I went along with Andrea and Sym to The Guardian to join a hack day for HP’s new TouchPad tablet – an interesting alternative to the iPad that uses web standard technologies for creating native mobile applications. We won the competition(!) with a prototype app for exploring live web content, such as news, [...]
Category: Dharmafly Creations
A web app for tiny tasks and a crowd of volunteers
July 8, 2011 – 1:55 pm
URLs: brightworks.me & tasket.dharmafly.com People like to help out with a good cause, but it can be difficult to find the time. What if, through the Web, we could gather enough people and bring them together to achieve something great? At Dharmafly, we’ve been hard at work creating an open source tool called “Tasket“, which [...]
What makes a UK Online centre?
August 24, 2010 – 11:36 am
URL: rewiredstate.org/projects/what-makes-a-centre We previously blogged about helping to create a prototype SMS text message service for the Government’s UK Online Centres. The centres help people get online for the first time, and are a key part of the government’s strategy for Digital Engagement. We also worked on a handful of data visualisations to highlight the [...]
Digital inclusion goes mobile
August 23, 2010 – 12:42 pm
URL: rewiredstate.org/projects/sms-centre-finder There are 61 million people in the UK and 10 million of them have never used the Web. How would you help someone to get online for the first time? The job of the Government’s UK Online Centres is to help bridge the digital divide, by providing places with free public Internet and [...]
Show me the money
July 3, 2010 – 10:26 am
URL: guardian.co.uk/datablog/…infovis (fullscreen version) There’s been a lot of discussion recently about public spending, amidst a global recession, countries in crisis and the emergency budget. The Guardian has been following this closely and, when the UK Treasury released “Coins“, its huge database of Government spending, the Guardian invited a small group of programmers and experts to [...]
Science Hack Day and The Revolutionaries
July 1, 2010 – 10:42 am
URL: dharmafly.com/revolutionaries/ Last week saw an exciting event that brought together scientists, programmers and designers: “Science Hack Day“. Held at The Guardian in London, this was an up-all-night two days of web development, hardware building and invention, with the goal of prototyping new services and tools for science and scientists.
BBC World Service Widget Launched
July 20, 2009 – 10:05 am
We recently completed an exciting project for BBC World Service: the World Service Widget, which lets people share BBC World Service content on their websites, blogs or computer desktops. It’s being released on a number of web platforms (WordPress, iGoogle, Adobe Air, Facebook, Netvibes, Mac Dashboard, Vista Sidebar and as a simple snippet of HTML [...]
OpenFreecycle won at OpenHackLondon!
May 15, 2009 – 3:20 pm
URL: dharmafly.com/openfreecycle Streuth. Hot on the heels of last week’s UnLtdWorld award, I was amazed to experience the web application that I created with Tom Leitch being awarded the top two prizes Yahoo’s OpenHackLondon. And this, after winning a prize with ‘HackHUD‘ at the previous Hack Day London, two years earlier (the famous one, when [...]
Put Yourself on the Map
December 4, 2008 – 11:00 am
If you had a map and you could show it to anyone, what would you put on it? These days, maps are playing a big part in the development of social media. Imagine you were to run an event, or make a journey around the world, how could you represent it online? How could you [...]
3-2-1, Blast Off to Planet Crunchy
September 6, 2008 – 9:30 am
URL: dharmafly.com/crunchies Planet what? ‘Planet‘ sites are a new and wonderful way to draw people with common interests together online… and today is the day we get to demonstrate how. What’s all this green stuff? This weekend, at Barcamp Brighton3, we’re giving Brighton’s best New Media pros some special treats, in the form of Dharmafly [...]